It’s early April and we’re all tired of winter but it lingers on. How are you coping? Yes, you!

below: Is this wishful thinking? or maybe just a little too optimistic?

below: Spring is in the air? They forgot the question mark. Is the cat reacting to the disconnect between the sign and the reality? … or maybe its expression is because it’s just realized that it’s sitting beside a book about Justin Trudeau?

These were the only signs of spring that I saw yesterday as I walked although I noticed that someone was trying to cheer things up. Not sure how long these have been sitting outside. They’re looking a little weather worn and grubby. Hope may be wearing a bit thin?

below: Elsewhere yellow birdies were playing hockey.

Spring was elusive but what I did spot were a couple of stikmen that I don’t remember seeing before. I also noticed more smiley hearts popping up in unexpected places again. First, some of the hearts…

below: Cool Woodstock makes an appearance too (a yellow birdie of a different kind). I don’t think she’s too happy to have a bird sitting on her head.

below: The guitar player is now playing with heart.

And the stikmen….

below: Instead of wooden, this stikman is a drawing in a frame.

below: Is that a little orange head of a stikman in the bent frame?

….. and then back inside for some warmth!

I will leave you with one last look at a window full of yellow chicks and Easter bunnies, hope for spring (Hope springs eternal? Hopes of spring are eternal?).

A small collection of a few of the things that I’ve noticed over the past while.
Pictures of little things that haven’t found a home yet.

below: It’s not two people each riding an old fashioned bike even though that’s probably the first thing that you think of when you see it. It’s one bike with two wheels and two riders going in different directions. Going nowhere probably. Seen in the front window of Tandem Coffee on King Street East.

below: Don’t just peer out the window, get outside and be a part of the world. There’s so much to be seen!

below: Love letter to a bike.

below: The mannequins on the balcony in Kensington are now gold!

below: I’ve seen a couple of these images now. This one is a paste-up on a black metal box near Bloor & Borden. I’ve also seen another painted on hoardings around a construction site, possibly on Bathurst Street. There was a similar image on the wall of Honest Ed’s but this one has a bit more detail in it, especially the hair.

below: A small sticker, slightly creepy, almost as if the poor girl is being stalked.

below: An old clock hiding under a newer sign, forgotten. Stopped long ago.

below: It looks like Mary’s been discounted.

below: Always good advice! Painted in pink on a window that catches the afternoon sun and makes interesting shadows on the blind behind.

below: Take one ball, a stool, and paint and add some imagination – a unique garden ornament to brighten the day of passers by.

below: Decorative tiles on the front of a brick building on Yonge Street (two photos).

below: I wonder what the T stands for?

below: Keep your eyes open and you’ll be surprised too!

Today I’m going to end with the photo below. To me it encapsulates the idea that photographers can be a weird bunch. Somewhere out there someone has a close up photo of these pipes and dials. It’s probably a great picture! …. because if they hadn’t been there, I may have taken the same picture. Instead I took a picture of the photographer in action. Never stop seeing.